"Utile" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Interprete-manuel des Noms Latins de la Geographie ancienne et moderne; pour servir a l'Intelligence des Auteurs Latins, principalement des Auteurs Classiques; avec les Designations principales des Lieux. Ouvrage utile a ceux qui lisent les Poetes, les Historiens, les Martyrologes, les Chartes, les vieux Actes," &c. &c. A ...
— Notes & Queries No. 29, Saturday, May 18, 1850 • Various
... l'inventaire en le veritable palladium d'une bibliotheque. L'impression des catalogues est toujours une chose utile, sinon indispensable.... La publicite est, en outre, le frein des abus, des negligences, et des malversations, l'aiguillon du zele, et la source de toute amelioration."—L. ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 67, February 8, 1851 • Various
... celebres imprimeurs, avec une indication des meilleures editions sorties de leurs presses, et sur les bibliographes, avec la liste de leurs ouvrages; 3tio, enfin, L'exposition des differentes systemes bibliographiques, &c.,—ouvrage utile aux bibliothecaires, archivistes, imprimeurs, libraires, &c. Par G. Peignot, Bibliothecaire de la Haute-Saone, membre-correspondant de la Societe libre d'emulation du Haut-Rhin. Indocti discant, et ament meminisse periti. Paris, An ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton
... qu'ils ont effleura. D'un esprit plus hardi, d'un pas plus assure, Il porta le flambeau dans l'abeme de l'otre; Et l'homme avec lui seul apprit a se connoetre. L'art quelquefois frivole, et quelquefois divine, L'art des vers est dans Pope utile au ...
— Biographical Essays • Thomas de Quincey
... industrieux) sortirent les deux grandes societes Italiennes—les Osci, (dont les Latins sont une tribu,) et les Tusci ou Etrusques. Circe, fille du soleil, a tous les caracteres d'une Telchine Pelasgique. Le poete nous la montre pres d'un grand feu, rarement utile dans un pays chaud, si ce n'est pour un but industriel; elle file la toile, ou ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, No. 382, October 1847 • Various
... "Aimable autant qu'utile, Superbe et caressant, courageux et docile, Forme pour le conduire et pour le proteger. Du troupeau qu'il gouverne il est le vrai berger; Le Ciel l'a fait pour nous; et dans leur cours rustique, Il fut des rois pasteurs le ...
— Anecdotes of Dogs • Edward Jesse
... Forms the most difficult in punctuation. Appearances appear to form the joint On which it hinges in a higher station; And so that no explosion cry 'Aroint Thee, witch!' or each Medea has her Jason; Or (to the point with Horace and with Pulci) 'Omne tulit punctum, quae miscuit utile dulci.' ...
— Don Juan • Lord Byron
... habitans craignaient que les Esclaves ne pretendent etre libres en arrivant en France, ce qui pourroit causer auxdits habitans une perte considerable, et les detourner d'un objet aussi pieux et aussi utile. ...
— The Education Of The Negro Prior To 1861 • Carter Godwin Woodson
... L'envie de me rendre utile, dont tout citoyen doit tre anim, m'a fait entreprendre l'ouvrage que je prsente au Public. S'il a le bonheur de mriter son approbation, quoiqu'il y ait peu de gloire attache au travail ingrat et fastidieux d'un Traducteur, je me dterminerai donner les meilleurs ouvrages ...
— Baron d'Holbach - A Study of Eighteenth Century Radicalism in France • Max Pearson Cushing
... advantage is in combining war with sport, the utile with the dulce, in like manner as other philosophers have put moral in the mouths of beasts, and birds, and reptiles, and encouraged the love of virtue and inculcated its doctrines by allegorical writings such as the Marzaban, ...
— Chess History and Reminiscences • H. E. Bird
... already. Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile dulci. I have always succeeded in everything I've undertaken, because I've never attempted anything. I should like to call myself Polycrates, who found the gold ring in the fish's stomach. Life has given me all I asked of it. But I never asked anything; ...
— The Road to Damascus - A Trilogy • August Strindberg
... obitum, ne quid asini unquam {42} conquiescat, foraminibus delacerari, indeque factis cribris, assiduae inservire agitationi; unde dicebat Apuleius: cedentes hinc inde miserum corium, nec cribris jam idoneum relinquunt. Sed et Albertus pollicetur asinorum corium non solum utile esse ad soleas calceorum faciendas, sed etiam quae ex illa parte fiunt, in qua onera fuerunt, non consumi, etsi ille qui utitur, eis continuo peregrinando in lapidibus portaverit, et tandem ita indurare ut pedes sustinere ...
— Notes and Queries, Number 33, June 15, 1850 • Various
... Deisque, Et cole felices, miseros fuge. sidera terrae Ut distant, ut flamma mari, sic utile recto. LUCAN. Lib. viii. 486. [Transcriber's note: punctuation ...
— The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D, In Nine Volumes - Volume the Third: The Rambler, Vol. II • Samuel Johnson
... of trial-and-error may often result in highly constructive resolutions, as in what the French call reve utile. This is especially true in case the unadjusted cues are highly persistent psychic stimuli. Here, the excitation rises instead of seeming to wear down and can be followed in its working up, through trial-and-error, to the elaboration of a more or less logical response to the demands of the ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... Qui clarum in literis nomen a patre acceptum Magna cumulavit gloria. Ingenium in illo erat scientiarum omnium capax, Disciplinisque optimis diligentissima exculturn. Erat indoles ad virtutem eximia, Et in Justitia, Libertate, Religione vindicanda Maxime probata. Quicquid autem utile vel honestum Consiliis, Exemplo, Auctoritate vivus promoverat, Id omne scriptis suis immortalibus Etiam nunc tuetur atque ornat. Praestantissimum hunc virum, Cum a provincia Bengala, Ubi judicis integerrimi munus Per decennium obierat, ...
— Lives of the English Poets - From Johnson to Kirke White, Designed as a Continuation of - Johnson's Lives • Henry Francis Cary
... considered as the period when Grecian literature had reached its lowest state of depression; in the ninth, Bardas Caesar, the brother of the empress Theodora, protected letters; from that time they were constantly cultivated by the Greeks; so that Constantinople, utile it was taken by Mahomet, was never without its historians, poets, or philosophers. Compared with the writings of the ancients, their compositions seem lifeless and unnatural; we look among them in vain either for original genius or successful imitation. Still they ...
— The Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs, and Principal Saints - January, February, March • Alban Butler
... utile qu'une ou plusieurs Puissances etrangeres au conflit offrent de leur propre initiative, en tant que les circonstances s'y pretent, leurs bons offices ou leur mediation ...
— Letters To "The Times" Upon War And Neutrality (1881-1920) • Thomas Erskine Holland
... or Countenance, that promiseth Good and evill. So that of Good there be three kinds; Good in the Promise, that is Pulchrum; Good in Effect, as the end desired, which is called Jucundum, Delightfull; and Good as the Means, which is called Utile, Profitable; and as many of evill: For evill, in Promise, is that they call Turpe; evill in Effect, and End, is Molestum, Unpleasant, Troublesome; and evill in the Means, ...
— Leviathan • Thomas Hobbes
... conversed with me for a long time, and when he heard that I intended to go to Dresden he wrote at once to Baron von Friesen as follows: "Monsieur Frederic Chopin est recommande de la part du General Leiser a Monsieur le Baron de Friesen, Maitre de Ceremonie de S.M. le Roi de Saxe, pour lui etre utile pendant son sejour a Dresde et de lui procurer la connaissance de plusieurs de nos artistes." And he added, in German: "Herr Chopin is himself one of the most excellent ...
— Frederick Chopin as a Man and Musician - Volume 1-2, Complete • Frederick Niecks |
